Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Not even enough to make pancakes

This is the result of four years of growth for our blueberry bushes. This is the second handful of berries the girls have eaten this year. Last year the birds got most of the berries, but for some reason they have left them alone so far. To be fair, this is only the second year that we really watered them, we have never used fertilizer on them and only once a year do I pull the weeds out that surround them. Now each bush has around two hundred berries. Luckily there is great pick-your-own blueberry orchard about fifteen minutes away where it costs $1.50 a pound if you pick, so we will going there for a few more years. If I could wind it back and have a do over we would have planted differently.

First, I would have at least planted another ten to twenty bushes, possibly as many as forty.

Second, I would plant them close together instead of spread out around the yard like decorations. There location makes them take more time to water and harvest.

Third, I would plant all them on the slope instead of on level ground. The bushes at the bottom of a slope are so much easier to water using a rain barrel and gravity to move the water.

I am thinking about ordering some pecan trees from Willis Orchard Company, but I am trying to figure out what regrets I will have in four years.

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